Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

Thepessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunityin every difficulty.

Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Silenceis the ultimate weapon of power.

Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

Whendealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic,but creatures of emotion.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

A room without books is a body without soul